Saturday, February 4, 2017

When the dust was cleared and the debris swept away, he stood revealed
as Hillary Clinton’s most generous billionaire donor. Yet his name
rarely surfaced during the presidential campaign—and that’s generally
the way he likes it. Dark Money, Jane Mayer’s book about covert
political funding, refers to the Koch brothers more than 300 times in
its excoriation of the “radical right” but mentions progressive icon
George Soros just six times; three are footnotes.

One of the planet’s richest men, his past marred with crimes and
misdemeanors, the 86-year-old billionaire skates on. More than a decade
ago, he moved his financial headquarters to Curaçao, a tax-free haven in
the Caribbean designed for monied hypocrites who talk one game and play
another. The place is not bulletproof; on occasion, Soros has been
accused—and even convicted—of insider trading. A French court found him
guilty of that crime and levied a fine of $2.3 million. In the parlance
of the billionaires’ club, that was small change. Investigative
journalists, a dwindling cadre, show little interest in him. They prefer
to scrutinize safer, softer targets.

Direct Disobedience to an Order was a serious offense at military school, but Insubordination was expulsion, no ifs, ands or buts.That
sounds like strong language, but what else should we call government
officials who rule by fiat, replacing the laws passed by the people's
representatives and the Constitution with their own personal
preferences?

Her own words
say she refused to defend Donald Trump's executive order because she
doesn't think it is "right," not because it is unconstitutional or
illegal.

Isn't
a government where individuals impose their will on the people
tyrannical? If so, then what Yates did is a soft-power revolution aimed
at denying the people their right to decide how they are to be ruled.
Yates wants a tyranny where she and her ilk tell us deplorables how we
are to live and what we are to believe.

Of course, Sally is following a long established liberal tradition of tyranny.

Yesterday a new America, today Koblenz and tomorrow a new Europe,”
Wilders said. “We are the start of a patriotic spring in Europe.”
Dutch populist leader Geert

Wilders praised U.S. President Donald
Trump for his executive order to temporarily ban immigration from seven
countries, saying he has already done more to curb mass migration than
the entire European continent ever has.

“Here there is a politician who does not only keep his promises and
fulfills his promises in the election campaign, but has done more to
beat the mass immigration in two weeks time than the whole European
governments [have] in their whole existence,” Wilders said
during a book release in The Hague Thursday. “I’m sure if we would have
had that kind of policy for instance in the Netherlands and other
countries in Europe, that a lot of turmoil, a lot of terrorism would
have been spared.”

'All of the so-called ‘solutions’ to global warming are
purely symbolic when it comes to climate. So, even if we actually faced a
climate catastrophe and we had to rely on a UN climate agreement, we
would all be doomed!'

University of London professor emeritus Philip Stott: “The
fundamental point has always been this. Climate change is governed by
hundreds of factors, or variables, and the very idea that we can manage
climate change predictably by understanding and manipulating at the
margins one politically selected factor (CO2) is as misguided as it
gets.” “It’s scientific nonsense,” Stott added.

Very prominent scientists are bailing out of the so-called “consensus.”

Breitbart
senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday attacked the media, saying
coverage of him is making it “impossible” to express his “reasonable,
mainstream” opinions in public.

Yiannopoulos appeared on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” days after protesters
set fires and destroyed property ahead of his scheduled speech at the
University of California, Berkeley, forcing the event’s cancellation.

"That is the price you pay for being a libertarian or a conservative on American college campuses," Yiannopoulos said.

Columnist Hilal Kaplan
wrote in a Turkish-language commentary that “the American president who
is responsible for destabilizing the seven banned Muslim nations was
none other than former President Barack Obama. It was of course bad that
American Muslims were in trouble, but what really mattered were
‘Muslims in our region.’”

The governments who have to deal with the consequences of American
fecklessness, by contrast, want the United States to be strong and
assertive. They are engaged in an existential war against jihadist
elements who threaten to reduce them to chaos, and look to the United
States to show determination. That is why Trump is suddenly so popular
in the Middle East.

The US president's measure has had precisely the result he intended, giving succour to those engaged in an existential war against jihadist elements

Critics of President Trump’s temporary travel ban on seven Muslim
nations should remember the Chinese proverb, “Kill the chicken and let
the monkey watch.”

The much-criticized measure was a warning to the governments of the
Gulf States, Turkey and Pakistan, who walk a fine line between support
for Western counter-terrorism efforts and concessions to jihadists. It
has had precisely the result that the White House intended, as a Dubai
security official indicated on January 29. As Reuters’ Zawya.com reported:

Dubai’s deputy chief of police and public security, Lieutenant
General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, has praised US President Donald Trump’s
recent decision to temporarily ban citizens from seven Muslim-majority
states, saying in a series of tweets it was a ‘preventive measure’ to
safeguard the country.

What do you make of the protests against President Trump’s refugee order?

Everyone, including the administration, seems to agree that this
should have been implemented with more clarity. There was much confusion
about what the order meant and many people were very upset.

From my perspective in Iraq, I wonder why all of these protesters
were not protesting in the streets when ISIS came to kill Christians and
Yazidis and other minority groups. They were not protesting when the
tens of thousands of displaced Christians my archdiocese has cared for
since 2014 received no financial assistance from the U.S. government or
the U.N. There were no protests when Syrian Christians were only let in
at a rate that was 20 times less than the percentage of their population
in Syria.

U.S. District Judge James Robart issued a
nationwide halt on President Trump’s immigration executive order on
Friday. Judge Robart is the same judge who accused the Seattle police
union of killing black people and proclaimed “Black Lives Matter” from the bench.

Washington and Minnesota had filed a lawsuit against the federal
government to halt the travel ban, and Judge Robart declared that the
states were likely to succeed in their lawsuits before issuing the
restraining order.

The Justice Department responded by saying, “The department looks
forward to reviewing the court’s written order and will determine next
steps.”

Following
the Muslim ban in the United States, Kuwait has now suspended the
issuance of visas for travellers from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan
and Iran.

Tourism,
trade, and visitor visas from the above mentioned nations have been
restricted following an order from the Kuwaiti Government to slap a
"blanket ban" on possible migrants, according to Sputnik News.

The
Kuwaiti Government has asked would-be migrants from the five banned
nations not to apply for visas, as Kuwait City is worried about the
possible migration of radical Islamic terrorists.

President Donald Trump
used a portion of his weekly address to defend his executive order
banning citizens of seven countries from entering the United States,
even as a federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary nationwide
restraining order Friday stopping the order.

“I will never forget that my responsibility is to keep you—the American people—safe and free,” Trump said in the address.

“The
executive order establishes a process to develop new vetting and
mechanisms to ensure those coming into America love and support our
people. That they have good intentions,” he continued.
Trump used
the address, which touched on several topics, to show that, “On every
single front, we are working to deliver for American workers and
American families.”

Remembrance

Execution of Colonel Ho Ngoc CanLast words: "If I won the war, I would not condemn you as you have condemned me.I would not humiliate you as you have humiliated me.I would not ask you questions that you asked me.I fought for the freedom of my people.I have merit and I am not guilty.No one can convict me.History will criticize you as my Communist enemy.You want to kill me, then kill me.Do not blindfold me.Down with the Communists.Long live the Republic of Viet Nam !"

Colonel CraigMandeville:

“They wanted the people to see that he was dead,” said Craig Mandeville, an American adviser to the South Vietnamese army who fought side by side with Can. “He was believed to be some sort of invincible guy. The North Vietnamese thought that, too, and I even thought that when I fought with him.”

“He said, ‘OK, the country’s fallen, but by God we’re still South Vietnamese and we’re free,’ ” Mandeville recalled. “So he went down to Chuong Tien province and rounded up all these soldiers down there to form a Free Vietnam.”

Col. Can didn’t live long after that, but the legacy of his struggle lives on.

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.